update version 2.13

welcome 2013!

we had a wonderful short weekend in Hberg with friends and our kiddos to properly ring in the new year
and
say goodbye to the city that held the heart of our little family
longer
than any other...
the Berg closes it's doors to our troops and surrounding services this summer
making this holiday season bittersweet, semi sweet-
and, in the end-just plain sweet

biggers was home for 2 complete weeks
he flew back this morning
making this final sunday of our break bittersweet, semi sweet-
and, as we all quietly walked to the car-just plain sweet

i've spent more time using this blog as a venting place
than as a
happy place
which is how i intended it to be
shiny happy life in casa h
when we opened our doors to live in nc SEVEN years ago
in the last few years there has just been so much upset
and frantic overreaction
hurt, worry, anger, frustration, fear-
i simply can't begin another year that way.

so it goes...
so i go...
back to the beginning.
maybe a new blog title
or a new banner...something that shows us now, not so much of then...

the kiddos came together and got me a new camera this holiday
i was able to save photos that i had forgotten even taking
which means that at some point they will be posted!
the phoenix from the ashes...2013

any suggestions for blog names or banner snaps will be taken into consideration, always with:
umarmen und lieben